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Simon Robert wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:06 +0000, Neil Winchurst wrote: >> miketidball@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> Neil,have you tried going to your sevice providers homepage and checking >>> if they provide webmail access to your normal account. >>> >>> Mike >>> >> Thanks Mike, yes I know about that. I have my own web site and I have >> email set up on it. In fact that is what I am using now. I am running >> TBird for this, set up on my own computer and yes I can also access it >> using a browser. BUT, it is so tedious and long-winded that way, so I >> wondered about setting up a web only email client for when I am away. >> >> Regards >> >> Neil >> > I think Mike may have meant something slightly different. I have a web > page and a hosting service. This also comes with various e-mail > addresses. I use these and download into evolution, but the hosting > service, purplecloud, also provide webmail access to these addresses via > the horde interface. I just need to go to webmail.mydomainname.co.uk > enter name (full email address in this instance) and password etc. > > Like Mike said your ISP may also have a webmail interface. > > It seems a pretty common option for hosting services. purplecloud (other > hosting services to I'm sure) offer an e-mail only account for around £5 > a year. > > If I have misunderstood, sorry. > > Simon > > I will look into that thanks. But, as mentioned in another reply to this thread I have been reminded that I already had gmail set up and I will use that as my web email program. When I first tried it I did not like gmail very much at all, but it has improved a lot since then. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html